Lamp-burner.



G. STANEK.

LAMP BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.18, 1907.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

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CHARLES STANEK, OF FORT DODGE, IOWA.

LAMP-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 18, 1907.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Serial No. 407,021.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES STANEK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Fort Dodge, county of obster, and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Burners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to lamp burners, the object of the invention is to produce a novel burner for lamps which embodies an arrange ment of parts whereby the burner may be manipulated so as to permit the wick or its equivalent to be ignited without the necessity for removing the chimney from the burner.

In the construction disclosed herein the burner is represented as being generally of a popular construction, including the hinged cap for affording access to the wick tube to permit the carbonized portions of the wick to be removed, the guard being provided with the usual spring fingers into engagement with which, the neck or flange of the chimney is intended to be sprung. Additionally, however, the burner embodies provision whereby the wick tube can be lowered with respect to the cap and guard, so that an ignited match or other flame medium can be introduced beneath the elevated guard through an opening in the neck of the burner and the protruding end of the wick readily ignited.

While I illustrated and described my novel burner as adapted for an oil lamp, it will be readily a preciated that its novel features are capable of use in connection with burners designed for lamps of other kinds, for instance the socalled stand-lamps operating in connection with ordinary illuminating gas or those serving with acetylene gas.

There are other novel features and details connected with my invention which will be described more fully in the subsequent extended description.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1, is a vertical section of the burner, the section being taken in the pgl ane indicated by the dotted line 11, of ig. 2, and the burner being represented in its elevated or normal position; and Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 22, of Fig. 1, fand showing the burner lowered into position for ignition.

As will be readily perceived, the burner comprises the neck A, the base a of which is threaded to adapt it for engagement with the collar of the ordinary oil reservoir. Passing through and extending above the neck A, which for obvious reasons is hollow, is the vertical wick-tube B. C, refers to the wick in said tube. The neck A, has the customary wick-feed shaft D, with its spur-disks (Z, for engaging the wick, one projecting end of said shaft being provided with the usual head E, facilitating its rotation. This said shaft D, is journaled through a tube F, which is in slidable engagement within the neck A, and is secured to the wick-tube B, the said tube B, being maintained in its upward position by means of the spiral spring G, the upper end part of which is retained within the two-walled collar g, which rigidly connects the wick-tube B, to the said sliding cylinder F.

H, designates the hollow guard of sheet metal which may be of any approved configuration, and which is connected with the neck A, by means of the radial arms 7b. This guard also having the chimney engaging spring fingers 2, and the top 3, through an ap rop1'iate opening 4, therein, the wick tube slidingly extends, said tube being provided with a perforated disk 5, which normally closes said opening. The hinge cap J, surmounts the guard II, and has the ordinary opening 7, which admits of ready access to the upper end of the Wick-tube in order that the projecting portion of the wick may be reached so that the carbonized parts may be removed therefrom in a manner well understood.

The bodily vertical movement of the wicktube is secured as follows: Through the neck A, of the burner are oppositely located slots L, which engage the two projecting end parts of the shaft D, the said end parts normally bearing against the upper ends of said slots, and the spring G, normally maintaining this upwardly extended position.

The means whereby the wick may be ignited comprises the two oppositely located openings 6, formed through the neck A. These are normally closed by means of the sliding tube F, which is connected to the wick-tube B;

In the operation and use of the invention when it is desired to ignite the wick without removing the chimney, it is simply necessary to press downwardly on the two end parts of the shaft D, which action contracts the spring G, and admits of moving the wicktube downwardly until its upper end registers with the openings 6, of the burner neck A, whereupon a lighted match or other igniting agent may be readily extended to the upper end of the wick through the said openings. Upon releasing the pressure against the spring the wick-tube resumes its normal position, as shown by Fig. 1, of the drawings; Fig. 2, illustrating the position ready for igniting the wick; both the elevating and lowering movements being accomplished to permit the wick-ignition without occasioning the removal of the chimney.

From the foregoing it will be readily appreciated that a lamp burner constructed in accordance with my invention, is not only extremely useful, but comparatively inexpensive, as well as simple and durable.

As before stated, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the particular con struction shown and described, as it may be subject to modification and change without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a lamp burner the combination with a hollow cylindrical neck having two oppos'ite slots, a guard plate, a cap, and a screw threaded base, of a hollow tubular slide arranged to move within said neck, and normally closing said slots, a wick tube within said slide and arranged to move therewith, a

rigid connection between said slide and wick tube, and means for movmg said sllde.

2. In a lamp burner the combination with a hollow cylindrical neck having two opposite slots, a guard plate provided with a central opening, a cap and a screw threaded base, of a tubular slide arranged to move in said neck, and normally closing said slots, a wick tube in said slide rigidly attached thereto and arranged to move therewith, a perforated disk attached to said wick tube arranged to move therewith and normally closing the said open ing in said guard plate, and means for moving said tubular slide.

3. In a lamp burner, the combination with a hollow cylindrical neck having two opposite slots, a guard plate provided with a central opening, a cap and a screw base, of a tubular slide arranged to move within said neck normally closing said slots, a wick tube within said slide rigidly connected thereto, and arranged to move therewith, a perforated disk on said wick tube arranged to move therewith and normally closing the said central opening in said guard late, means for moving said slide, means for olding the same in normal position, and means for moving a wick in said wick tube.

In testimony that, I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses, this 7th day of December 1907.

CHARLES STANEK.

Witnesses THOMAS STANEK, W. N. HAIRE. 

